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    What’s the difference between a muggle and a wizard parent: Going into Hogwarts with a wizard parent being raised into wizardry, but think about how a wizard feels when they have “muggle” parents? A muggle is a person who lacks any sort of magical ability and was not born into the magical world (Muggle). In Harry Potter Hermione comes from of family of muggles, but she continues on her way to Hogwarts, also, another wizard, Ron, comes from a family of wizards who think that wizard is the way of…

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    Research Paper On Snape

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    prof snape is a fictional character of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Introduced as a man of cold and bitter nature , he comes out to be the hero of the series who not only sacrificed his love but also saved life of lily's son at each and every moment of his life since he met him. in the series , snape is an exceptionally skillful wizard who teaches harry (lily's son) potions at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.in the starting novel of the series snape is a teacher who is always…

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    Film Analysis In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter fulfills Joseph Campbell’s trail of the Hero’s Journey. All heroes have a journey they must undertake. Campbell illustrated that all stories and myths have similar layouts and stores structures. This journey is called “The Road of Trials”. Harry Potter follows Campbell's theories, primarily the Initiation: the Road of Trials. When the hero, Harry, has arrived in the new world, the wizarding world, he goes through a number of…

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    I have just read a book called ‘’Percy Jackson The Demigod Files’’ by Rick Riordan and I thought it was a very interesting book and it is one of the best books I have read. There were three different storys in the book but all of them were about Percy Jackson. Percy is the main charahter in the book and he is the son of Poseidon and his mother is a mortal human. Since his father is immortal and his mother is a mortal human, that makes him a demigod/half-blood. Percy appears to live a normal…

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    Prophet For Profit

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    The Prophet for Profit: Motivation of Mainstream Media in the Harry Potter Series The Harry Potter series tells an enchanting story about the magical world with the theme of love and death. Though Hogwarts, the school of magic, has been the dream place for millions of readers alike, not all the elements of the wizarding society are desirable. The power-loving Minister of Magic—Cornelius Fudge, leads the Ministry of Magic until the end of the fifth book, the Order of the Phoenix. Though the…

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    Hermione Granger

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    In the novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Hermione Granger is a muggle born witch who is constantly mocked by other students for her know-it-all persona. She acts like it does not bother her when it really makes her feel embarrassed, but her strongest most important character trait is her intelligence. Hermione is confident in herself because she knows that she is an amazing witch with many different talents, including spell casting and potion brewing, this confidence leads others…

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    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth book in J.K. Rowling’s 10 novel series. The book follows Harry Potter as he goes through another year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Spectacles, including a wand fight with Voldemort, an exhibition of flying broomsticks, and many more incidents occupy most of the novel, but behind these events there is a deeper meaning. In the novel, Rowling presents some similar themes and similar issues, specifically issues regarding childhood…

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    Dumbledore, the headmaster, who helps Harry many times along his journey. He also meets Ron and Hermione, who become his best friends. Harry, Ron, and Hermione go through a lot together. They go on all kinds of adventures, like finding the sorcerer’s stone, finding Voldermort’s holkruxes, and defeating…

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    From the call to adventure to the boon, a main character of a story often follows this traditional path on their journey of adventure. This proves to be no different for the renowned Harry Potter in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Letter after letter, the people of Hogwarts were desperately trying to get Harry to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. However, Vernon and Petunia Dursley, Harry’s Uncle and Aunt kept hiding these letters from Harry, so he had no…

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    “Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth used rhetorical strategies very effectively. Truth used rhetorical strategies effectively because her tone, text structure, figurative language, and the rhetorical devices she used let the audience know what she was feeling and why she was fighting for was she was fighting for. Truth used many rhetorical strategies in her speech but pathos, logos, ethos, allusion, juxtaposition, and pinpointing really made her argument valid and strong. Sojourner Truth’s…

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